International headlines bore the news of teen Namibian runners Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi -- ranked second and third fastest in the world -- being disqualified from competing in the 400 meter race at the Tokyo Olympic Games , for naturally occurring levels of testosterone. The two teens were found to have testosterone levels that exceeded 5 nanomoles of serum testosterone per liter, the maximum level of testosterone female runners can have to participate in races up to 400 meters and under 1 mile. But the larger story, more absent from the digital newsstand, invites a question almost maddening in its simplicity: what prompts World Athletics to “sex test” women athletes in the first place? Gender justice lawyer Shayna Medley says this trend, like many others, is brought full circle by the influence of racism in "science." “Black women are constantly having their gender called into question based on these eugenicist ideas of gender and race that are so intertwined,”...